Painting and drawing dialogues: working with secondary sources

What is the course about?

By responding imaginatively to found images as secondary source material, e.g., film stills, photographs, you will reflect on the unexpected ways these can intervene to affect your response to the external world. Discover the impact on an image when it is moved out of its original context to be seen in a new light. Explore how fragmentating and reconstructing an image between disciplines can expand its creative potential.

What will we cover?

• Use secondary source material to shape narrative content within painting and drawing.
• Work with projected images to accent their underlying visual structure and interpretive potential.
• Establish a tool kit to progress from group workshops to explorations of more individual subject matter.

What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...

• Explore the dynamic relationship between painting and drawing working with the ‘once-removed’ image.
• Work creatively from indirect visual sources using fragment and collage to expand the possibilities of painting and drawing.
• Use the impact of secondary sources as a means of decision-making and problem-solving.
• Workshop ways to apply emerging discoveries and insights to create more personal work.
• Discuss and evaluate the progress of your work.

What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?

This is an intermediate course, intended for those with some painting or drawing experience, or those who wish to explore the relationship between the two disciplines.

You should be able to follow verbal and written instructions, demonstrations, hand-outs and health and safety information. You may be encouraged to take short written notes for your own use and take part in group discussions.

How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?

Each session workshops a distinct aspect of the dialogue between painting and drawing, creating an atmosphere to support shared experimentation and discussion. The individual strands of thought arising, will be increasingly drawn together, but you will also be encouraged to make your own links between workshops.
The course offers:
• Practical structured projects
• Group discussion and evaluations
• One to one guidance
• Presentations on the work of selected artists

This course is supported by Google Classroom as a Virtual Learning Environment, where you will be able to access course material, presentations, and handouts etc.

Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?

All materials required are provided.

When I've finished, what course can I do next?

This is one of a suite of Painting and Drawing Dialogues courses. Taking further modules will expand your experience and confidence with cross-disciplinary working and prepare you for higher level study in the City Lit’s Advanced Practice area.